Learn about connectors, how they simplify data integrations, and how they're built for Confluent Cloud for use on major cloud providers like GCP, Azure, and AWS to help implement Apache Kafka within existing systems in an easy way.

Dustin Cote (Product Manager for Observability, Confluent Cloud) talks about Apache Kafka® made serverless and how beyond just the brokers, Confluent Cloud focuses on fitting into customer systems rather than building monitoring silos.

Host Tim Berglund catches up with Cornelia Davis, author of Cloud-Native Patterns and VP of Technology at Pivotal, on what cloud-native patterns are, the example code she created, her latest book, and how she wrote the book for the customers she interacts with on a daily basis.

With a virtual private cloud (VPC)—your own private network in the cloud that you can launch your own instances into—you can secure your cloud infrastructure and minimize the threat of potential attackers with VPC Peering, connecting VPCs together to create a path between them to keep your data safe and accessible to you alone.

What's the difference between a hosted solution and a managed solution? What about a partially managed solution versus a fully managed one? Ricardo Ferreira breaks down what a managed Kafka service truly means and why every developer should care.